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“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. Your mother brings you into the world, carries you first in her body. What do we know about what she feels? But whatever she feels, it, at least, must be real....” James Joyce, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” - 1916

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

“A mother, who is really a mother, is never free.” Honoré de Balzac, “Letters of Two Brides” - 1841

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children; and here was one who was worshipping a stone!” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from home and friends what the heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be it.” James Joyce, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” - 1916

“My mother is a fish.” William Faulkner, “As I Lay Dying” - 1930

“I heard that my mother is dead. I wish I had time to let her die. I wish I had time to wish I had. It is because in the wild and outraged earth too soon too soon too soon. It's not that I wouldn't and will not it's that it is too soon too soon...” William Faulkner, “As I Lay Dying” - 1930

“To describe my mother would be to write about a storm in its perfect power.” Maya Angelou, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” - 1969

“Sing to your fledglings again, Mother, oh lift up your head!” Rudyard Kipling, “The Jungle Book” - 1894

“What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?” Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women” - 1868

“Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongues when they have girls to manage.” Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women” - 1868

“A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.” Honoré de Balzac, “Letters of Two Brides” - 1841

“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future, but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.” Honoré de Balzac, “Letters of Two Brides” - 1841

“My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.” Richard Branson, “Losing My Virginity” - 1998

“No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danc'd, and under that was I born.” William Shakespeare, “Much Ado About Nothing” - 1600

“you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: you've already got a mom.” John Green, “Looking for Alaska” - 2005

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Honoré de Balzac (3)
William Faulkner (2)
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William Shakespeare (1)
Oscar Wilde (1)
William Makepeace Thackeray (1)
John Green (1)
Maya Angelou (1)
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Letters of Two Brides (3)
As I Lay Dying (2)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (2)
Little Women (2)
Much Ado About Nothing (1)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1)
Vanity Fair (1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1)
The Jungle Book (1)
Losing My Virginity (1)
Looking for Alaska (1)